David Frum's Blog, page 137

Powering America with Canadian Hydropower

Eli Lehrer writes that although American hydropower has reached its logical limits on new dams -- although existing ones can be enlarged to add capacity -- there's a quite logical answer to expanding this relatively clean variety of power generation: Canada.

It's Official: The Blaze and Pravda Agree on Obama!

News doesn't get more authoritative than this:

The Free Market's War on Coal

The Wall Street Journal somewhat awkwardly pays homage to coal:

When Gawker is Spot-On...

Hamilton Nolan takes a hammer to the Max Frankel's New York Times Book Review of Iron Curtain.

The "Reality-Based Community" Exacts Its Revenge

Bruce Bartlett's mini-memoir over at The American Conservative is well worth your time. He covers his time working in movement conservative circles (with the obligatory stints at National Review, the Heritage Foundation, and the Wall Street Journal) as well as his gradual break with the Republican Party. A particularly intriguing segment of the story deals with how he came to change his opinion on Keynesian economics.

How to Close the Empathy Gap

In this weekend's Weekly Standard, Jay Cost walks right up to the front door of Mitt Romney's electoral problem - and then turns aside and walks back away again.

Death of a Cupcake

In the weekend Financial Times, a comic masterpiece by Christopher Caldwell:

The Gaza Conflict's Winners and Losers

My National Post column describes the ultimate results of the latest skirmishes in Gaza.

UPDATED: David's Bookclub: Iron Curtain

When in 1960 Max Frankel returned from Moscow where he had been the New York Times bureau chief he wrote with striking candor that the lone Western correspondent is no match for the dominating power of the Soviet secret police and the Soviet bureaucracy. For the true story of the Soviet Union, he said, we would have to wait for the historians to tell us "what really happened."

David's Bookclub: Iron Curtain

When in 1960 Max Frankel returned from Moscow where he had been the New York Times bureau chief he wrote with striking candor that the lone Western correspondent is no match for the dominating power of the Soviet secret police and the Soviet bureaucracy. For the true story of the Soviet Union, he said, we would have to wait for the historians to tell us "what really happened."